Firstdraft: Four Exhibitions
The democratic and daring artist-run gallery known as Firstdraft has some extraordinary offerings on hand this month. Diverse exhibitions feature creatures ranging from ambiguous objects to musical monsters. Marc Alperstein’s abstractions lie somewhere between object design and colour-field, wreaking havoc with signification and the senses. Patterned material plays with optical illusion, confusing the ways in […]
Overview
The democratic and daring artist-run gallery known as Firstdraft has some extraordinary offerings on hand this month. Diverse exhibitions feature creatures ranging from ambiguous objects to musical monsters.
Marc Alperstein's abstractions lie somewhere between object design and colour-field, wreaking havoc with signification and the senses. Patterned material plays with optical illusion, confusing the ways in which we read and interpret objects. Be Jones' materials are slightly more mucky, blending the natural and the found into a new chaotic, disintegrating environmental possibility.
In Ceremony, Julian Day has collected old and disused keyboards and employed them as organs, which combine to form a breathing body of sound. The gentle sound waves of each instrument, coaxed out via weighting on the keys, build and blend with each other to create a warm, dense sound-world a musical atmosphere. This ensemble, which he titles An Infinity Room (or A.I.R for short), will perform on August 12 at 6pm for a mere $10 donation.
Justin Shoulder has similarly created a creature, many in fact, but his own physicality forms the necessary body for these. In I Am Raining, Shoulder pursues his fascination with 'Fantastic Creatures', including Chimeras, Vampire demons and Fire Gods, and the collective mind from which they emerge.
Between these four exhibitions, the artists question and clarify, soothe and disturb, surprise and affirm.
Image: Julian Day, Ceremony, 2010
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